The little red book of Financial Happiness
Life After Prison
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While working at a bank, I met a woman who said she was having a horrible day. She complained that she was expecting to be laid off from work the following day. She had worked for the same company for thirty-two years, and they were replacing her with younger people at a much lower pay scale. She’d been a model employee all her life. She had never taken a day off, had never abused a sick day, and had always been faithful to her employer. She was extremely upset. She told me there was no happiness in her life. I asked her one question: What is one thing that really makes you happy? She said it was spending a day at the beach. When I asked her when the last time was that she’d gone to the beach, she responded that it had been four years. I asked her why, and she gave me ten different excuses. When she finished with her excuses, I told her how cheap parking was at Miami Beach, which was only thirty minute drive from her home. I told her if she was getting fired tomorrow, she should take a day off, go to the beach and enjoy it, and then go to work the following day with more positive and relaxed attitude. She took that day off and spent the whole afternoon reading a book at the beach. When she returned to work on Friday, her boss told her she looked relaxed and healthy, that she did not look like someone who had been sick the day before. He also told her the whole office was falling apart because she’d been out. Apparently, she was more needed than she thought, and she did not lose her job that day. How we look at our challenges will determine how we live. Find happiness wherever you can, and make your life revolve around things that bring you joy, happiness, and peace. Focus on those things, and everything else will fall into place. This book will help you on your path to financial happiness. The effort you put into it will determine your success. After finishing this little book, you will have a different perspective on the true value of your life and money.
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About the Book
Personal finances are part of life and need to be properly understood and controlled. People’s personal finances are in disarray because they were never taught a better way. Many people find themselves struggling financially even though they have been working their entire lives. They live paycheck to paycheck and feel abandoned by the greater financial system. The Little Red Book of Financial Happiness is based on a class that the author has taught for more than a decade. It provides a simple way of looking at personal finances. Everything we need or want is measured in terms of money. Money and material life in general place many pressures on all members of society. Why? We tend to measure everything, even our sense of happiness, in dollars. The ability to understand and manage a personal budget gives one a fighting chance at obtaining financial happiness. This book will guide the readers on their road to a better life by learning how to control their money and not allowing money to control them. This book offers readers a step-by-step process. Forms and exercises allow readers to fine-tune their budgets. A checklist guides your steps along this journey. A progress tracker records your improvements. The Little Red Book of Financial Happiness will simply change the way you see your money.
About the Author
Raymar Rodriguez has been immersed in “everything money” since 1984. He was a banker at a large financial institution for twelve years. During that period, he had the pleasure of reviewing thousands of personal financial records, statements, profiles, and budgets. This training gave him the uncanny ability to quickly detect and address problems in his clients’ budgets. He developed the Financial Survival Workshop, later called Financial Happiness Workshop, to address financial problems being experience by many in his community. The class is still being taught after ten years at his local church and through a career transition support network. Raymar is passionate about all things money, education, international trade, and fishing. He holds a master’s degree in finance and is currently an adjunct finance professor at Miami Dade College in his hometown of Miami, Florida. He is married and has three children.